Author's POV
Meanwhile, across the city, Clara Voss sat frozen in front of her laptop, staring at the screen in disbelief.
The article was gone.
Not just taken down—erased. The news station had issued a formal apology. Ryan Cole had been fired and arrested. Every media outlet that had shared the piece had scrambled to delete it within minutes.
Clara's fingers trembled over the keyboard. She refreshed the page again. Nothing.
"How the hell did she do that?" she whispered.
She'd been refreshing the trending topics all morning, watching with smug satisfaction as Aria's name got dragged through the mud.
The comments had been brutal. Vicious. Exactly what Clara had hoped for.
And now it was all gone. Like it had never existed.
Clara grabbed her phone and tried calli
